Understanding Physical Relativity

By Leo Gura - December 1, 2024

This channel has some amazing videos about General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, and theoretical physics. I recommend you watch them all. They are some of the best explanations of physics you’ll ever find.

It’s important that you understand some of the fundamental insights at the heart of General Relativity, because relativity has much broader implications in epistemology and metaphysics. It’s important that you understand that distance, time, velocity, position, and rotation are relative.

The physical length of material objects is relative because the very notion of “length” is a human construct! Length is not a discrete notion because length is so entangled with the speed of light. Length cannot exist by itself without light! Because the only way you can know that anything has length is through light. To understand this is fucking profound.

It’s astounding that people believe that their morality, worldview, and epistemology is not relative when science says that length, time, and velocity are relative. Physical space is relative! Yet Christians believe that their religion and morality is not relative. Physical space is relative! Yet scientists believe that their science is not relative. Physical space is relative! Yet progressives believe that the wrongness of racism is not relative. What an intellectual embarrassment.

Humans are so disconnected from reality. The implications of General Relativity are so radical, yet nobody understands them or takes them seriously. Relativity is baked into the very fabric of space-time, yet humans go around acting like their stupid human constructions and narratives are not relative. The blindness and incoherence is stunning. You really believe that your view of reality, your ideology, your morality, your spirituality, your science, your philosophy, is in any way absolute or objective?

Humans are not intellectually serious creatures.

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